Senior Clinical Research Director

Main Responsibilities
Leadership & Mentorship
- Mentor other CRDs and Clinical Scientists within the project/therapeutic area
- Provide leadership, build consensus, and coordinate action plans to resolve study issues with other CRDs and stakeholders
- Anticipate issues by sharing lessons learned across teams
- Raise study/project-level issues to TA Heads as relevant and share pertinent information across teams

Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate to ensure a uniform, aligned operational approach (e.g., harmonizing study documents, endpoints, protocols)
- Interact with CRDs, Global Project Head, PV Representatives, Regulatory, and other functional representatives

Clinical Research & Development (CRD Role)
- Provide medical expertise to clinical studies/registries (except select Exploratory Pharmacology), including protocol development, Key Results, and Clinical Study Reports
- Support activities such as pressure testing and cluster feasibility; medical review/validation of clinical data; and study risk assessment
- Contribute to clinical sections of submission dossiers (CTD for FDA/EMA, filings in Japan and China, responses to health authority questions)
- Provide medical input for clinical study activities: training, feasibility, medical review of data, and medical information for study teams/investigators
- Serve as medical reference within the Clinical Study team, ensuring medical relevance and integrity of clinical data

Qualifications & Required/Preferred Skills
- MD or equivalent medical degree required (DO, MBBS)
- Medical training/clinical development experience in rheumatology, hematology, transplant, or immunology
- At least 4 years in pharmaceutical industry (late-stage clinical development preferred)
- Strong scientific and medical/clinical expertise; clinical development methodology and study design expertise
- Excellent verbal and written communication with cross-functional and regulatory stakeholders
- Risk-management mindset; ability to challenge decisions/status quo
- Ability to negotiate for operational resources to continue clinical conduct
- English fluency (spoken and written)
- Excellent teaching skills; matrix-model effectiveness; strong international/intercultural skills
- Open-minded/adaptable to new digital solutions

Benefits
- High-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs, and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave